[Commlist] RLEC: Call for papers on “Migration, Communication and Activism: Experiences and Debates”

[NEW DEADLINE] RLEC: CALL FOR PAPERS ON “MIGRATION, COMMUNICATION AND 
ACTIVISM: EXPERIENCES AND DEBATES”

Between January 15 and APRIL 22, 2024, it is open the call for papers 
for the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies on “Migration, 
Communication and Activism: Experiences and Debates”.

Editors: Isabel Macedo, Rosa Cabecinhas (CECS, Universidade do Minho, 
Portugal) e Susana de Andrés (Universidade de Valladolid, Spain)

Media narratives about migration often reinforce territorial and 
symbolic borders, and it is essential to analyse migrants’ media 
interventions, specifically how they use the media to express their 
experiences, challenge these borders and build alternative futures.

A focused and comparative analysis is pivotal to understanding the 
dynamics of change generated by migrants and the media’s role in these 
processes. Which narratives are given visibility by the media? What 
amnesias remain? What dynamics do we observe in the media use by 
migrants and racialised people? By acknowledging the close link between 
memory and action, memory activism holds the potential to transform the 
present and build other futures.

This issue focuses explicitly on migrant and racialised people’s media 
use and practices and their representation in the media. Drawing on 
approaches from communication studies and cultural studies and 
integrating insights from other areas of knowledge, this issue’s primary 
goal is to explore how communication and migration studies can challenge 
established notions surrounding diaspora, identities, cultures, nation, 
family, literacy, digital networks, youth, body, gender, and other 
pertinent topics.

We welcome empirical contributions addressing the following topics and 
other subjects within the field of media and migration:

– Experiences of (im)mobility and their mediation – Migrations and 
eco-transition – Transnational comparisons of media practices in 
communicating migration – Media representations of migration – Media 
culture, racialisation processes and intersectionalities – Mediated 
experiences of family migration – Media productions by migrants and 
racialised people – Artistic practices and media use among migrants – 
Migrations, media and action research – Migrations, media activism and 
social change – Digital technologies in the governance and management of 
migration and borders – Migration and the decolonisation of knowledge – 
Challenges and innovations in methodologies for communication and 
migration studies – Intercultural communication and the media – Mnemonic 
activism, arts and media

SUBMISSION OF FULL MANUSCRIPTS: January 15 to April 22, 2024

LANGUAGE:
Papers can be submitted in English or Portuguese. The articles selected 
for publication will be translated into Portuguese or English, 
respectively, and published in both languages.

EDITING AND SUBMISSION:
Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies is an open-access academic journal 
that adheres to the stringent standards of peer-reviewing and blind 
peer-reviewing. After submission, each paper will be distributed to two 
reviewers previously invited to evaluate it according to its academic 
quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the 
theme of this issue of the journal.

Original articles are submitted on the journal’s website at 
(https://www.rlec.pt/).

For further information, please refer to (rlec /at/ ics.uminho.pt)
No payment from the authors will be required.
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